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Does anybody know of a way of extending the Universal's keyboard backlight duration longer than the highest option of 10 secs? My eyes are hurting trying to see the keyboard at night. :shock:
Don't want it a lot. Maybe 20 or 30 seconds? Perhaps this is a registry setting?
TIA
Dont even need to change a registry setting mate
Go to Start > Settings > Buttons
Then click on the Backlight tab, it brings up the options here to either have the light sensor enabled or disabled, and also how long you want your keyboard backlight on for
Sorry
read ur post wrong
Only realised myself the highest option is 10 secs!
Doh!
Yes, there is a registry setting...
HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\QKeyLedTimeout
Change it from 10 to whatever you want. I originally set it to 60, but found that was way too long. I've got it set at 30 right now and that seems to be working well for me.
You need to soft reset after making the change before it will go into effect. Remember to turn the device off before you soft reset to make sure the cache is flushed and your change is saved.
HTH,
Brett
What about a way to change the sensitivity of the keyboard light sensor? We all I think find it not sensitive enough, and when it's too dark to see the keys, it still doesn't come on.
BrettS said:
Yes, there is a registry setting...
HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\QKeyLedTimeout
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Perfect! Thanks a bunch.
My light sensor does not work, I thought it was a firmware glitch !! does your keyboard light sensor work ??????????
O2 XDA Exec UK
also at full brightnes does your screen dim slightly when the keyboard lights up !!!
ice_coffee said:
My light sensor does not work, I thought it was a firmware glitch !! does your keyboard light sensor work ??????????
also at full brightnes does your screen dim slightly when the keyboard lights up !!!
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In what way doesn't it work? Are the keyboard lights always on or always off? At night, in the dark, do the keyboard lights come on when you press a key? Have you got the ambient light sensor enabled in the Control Panel?
I thought my light sensor wasn't working either when I first got it, not realising that you had to tap a key before it would light up.
I was also one of those that didn't know where the stylus from the box went (it was the spare)
SiliconS said:
ice_coffee said:
My light sensor does not work, I thought it was a firmware glitch !! does your keyboard light sensor work ??????????
also at full brightnes does your screen dim slightly when the keyboard lights up !!!
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In what way doesn't it work? Are the keyboard lights always on or always off? At night, in the dark, do the keyboard lights come on when you press a key? Have you got the ambient light sensor enabled in the Control Panel?
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Thanks for your reply, I have since hard reset and gone for corporate mode, and it has started working originaly in a pitch black room no matter what key I pressed, it refused to light up.
it is possible ?
I'm using the KAISER, when in a building i set the brightness to low becuase it has a very bright screen and it's just a waste of battery
But when i go outside i can't see a thing, need to set it to high again
And then i just forget to set it to low again
is it possible to make it be automatic ?
(bright outside - high brightness, dark outside - low brightness)
Thanks !
p.s.
does the KAISER have a light sensor like the Universal's keyboard light sensor ?
if so, is it possible to use that ?
ah man i hear you. when my sister got her blackberry pearl, and i saw it automatically change brightness, i was jealous. aha. unfortunately, the sensor is hardware thing.
i'm not sure about the kaiser but i know the hermes has a keyboard light sensor, but it's on the keyboard, and only says whether to turn on the keyboard backlight or not. not too useful, i'd think.
Hermes and Kaiser have front cameras...
but camera is a no-no for battery
Even once a minute, or on power-on?
Well, maybe yes.
I nice Solution would be a Button you press it, and the Brightness gets configurated automaticly: perfect for battery because you do this only on need!
And there could be a standart brightness reseted after having standby on
I dont know how to use the Camera in VB.Net someone knows?
I was thinking more in the direction of the front camera and the timer ....but bettery above all .... if it is possible it would be awsome !
the buton pressing idea is (forgive me) pointless ... if i wanted to press a button i might as well press the on screen button i already have ! (spb mobile shell)
thanks for the idea though !
it's great to see so many people taking interest, hope it will stick !
SPB software is my solution. You can map your jog dialer for brightness. I use that for volume, so I use touch screen to slide my brightness.
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/pocketplus/?en
look at the screenshot or demo. Map the brightness as botton4 is a option because brightness is a program link for you to set what ever button as you wish.
blah, i have an at&t 8525, so i forgot about the front facing camera. my current solution is to set the backlight to reasonable indoor setting, and i have VJLumos mapped to my Button5 press&hold. so whenever i go outside, I run VJLumos, and when I get back inside, I run VJLumos again (which turns it off) and it automatically goes back to the previous backlight setting.
It's really annoying when you're in someplace and just after you press the record button and suddenly the screen turns full blast bright! People around starts to turn their heads in your direction... Does your ipaq 612/614 pda's spits unwanted light rays in your face as well?
Do you know how to disable this, perhaps a registry tweak we can do?
Thank you so much
i believe my backlight fix (reg fix) will fix that, check the post in the backlight controller thread
thanx keyx,
you never fail to be helpful
Hi keyx,
I think you should try pressing the record button using the memo program.
I'm sure it still turns bright even after you follow the instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4527543&postcount=94
Which line specifically prevents the screen to bright?
TIA
sabertooth said:
Hi keyx,
I think you should try pressing the record button using the memo program.
I'm sure it still turns bright even after you follow the instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4527543&postcount=94
Which line specifically prevents the screen to bright?
TIA
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i think the note app is designed to force backlight on while recording (like gps app that keep backlight on)...you may want to look for other app that does not do that or try disable backlight globally...
if you use my rom you can use the voice commander button on the side of the unit to turn screen off, it should keep the app going
I've tried other recording programs, also still forces the backlight to turn on to high gear.
I'm currently using backlight controller to turn it off while recording, but sometimes you just need to leave the screen on.
There is a Hardware bug in the iPaq 600 phones.
This bug causes "static" to be heard in all recordings if the screen goes dim.
HP was aware of it and so sent out a "fix" except they did not fix anything all they did was force full screen brighness for the duration of the recording so that you never encounter the bug.
If you disable the screen brightness via a reg key chances are you will here the static in your recordings.
Btw i have not tested keyx's reg fix
little more info here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=481905
thanks branded,
I'd rather have it bright than clicking noise
i see in fron of my htc hd2 in left side two small lens is that a fron camera.
No. It's not.
alibox87 said:
i see in fron of my htc hd2 in left side two small lens is that a fron camera.
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One is a proximity sensor (turns off the screen when it's up against your face during a call) and the other is a light sensor (for the backlight's auto-dimming function)
its how the gov't is tracking you.
actually i'm glad as all the other phones get front face cameras i won't have one, no one needs to see my ugly mug.
Lol awesome first post!
it is an eyescanner? or a whole to feed the pink elephants?
I have some Risperidone for you...
Front cameras will be the cause for many divorces or split-ups...
secano said:
Front cameras will be the cause for many divorces or split-ups...
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Actually with any luck front cameras will prevent many people from getting together in the first place
dont think its coming to this country but the rest of the world uses it, at one point last year we were headed in that direction but the minmo7 devices turned it down unless the companies are still waitin to unleash the devices but the network can handel the data
sirphunkee said:
One is a proximity sensor (turns off the screen when it's up against your face during a call) and the other is a light sensor (for the backlight's auto-dimming function)
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If you want to get real technical about it, one of the holes is a light sensor that is sensitive to daylight for backlight brightness control and IR for proximity sensing, the other hole is an IR led that turns on during a phone call. When you hold the phone next to your face the IR led bounces off your skin and back into the 1st hole telling the HD2 that you have it near your face.
Try this, initiate a cell call on the HD2, then hold a video camera over those 2 holes. you'll see the IR LED lit up. It only lights during a cell call. Even better if you have a sony camcorder with nightshot mode activated, though just about every CCD/CMOS sensor is sensitive enough to IR even with the internal IR filter in place that you should be able to see it
Im going to take a guess that the IR led isn't just constantly lit, but likely pulse width modulated to some frequency the HD2 recognizes that way the light sensor can tell the difference between the IR bounce back and ambient light. I couldn't tell with my camera that it was PWM, but it could quite likely be at a frequency greater than 30hz, which you wouldn't be able to see on a standard video camera at 30fps. you'd need a high speed camera, or another IR sensitive photo diode attached to an oscilloscope.
d0ug said:
If you want to get real technical about it, one of the holes is a light sensor that is sensitive to daylight for backlight brightness control and IR for proximity sensing, the other hole is an IR led that turns on during a phone call. When you hold the phone next to your face the IR led bounces off your skin and back into the 1st hole telling the HD2 that you have it near your face.
Try this, initiate a cell call on the HD2, then hold a video camera over those 2 holes. you'll see the IR LED lit up. It only lights during a cell call. im going to take a guess that the IR led isnt just constantly lit, but likely pulse width modulated to some frequency the HD2 recognizes that way the light sensor can tell the difference between the IR bounce back and ambient light.
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Awesome, thank you for the white paper I love that kind of stuff!
If it is quite dark, you can see the LED blink about once a second...
Heyy all,
Actually the guy was asking if that's a FRON camera. Yes it is!!!
chvvkumar said:
If it is quite dark, you can see the LED blink about once a second...
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I think you're looking at the notification led on the far left of the earpiece speaker grille. I highly doubt you can see the IR LED with your naked eyes. Were talking about the two dots under the glass just to the left of that.
matyoka said:
Actually the guy was asking if that's a FRON camera. Yes it is!!!
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That sensor is not a front camera. its a photodiode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photodiode i guess you could call it a 1 pixel camera lol
d0ug said:
I think you're looking at the notification led on the far left of the earpiece speaker grille. I highly doubt you can see the IR LED with your naked eyes. Were talking about the two dots under the glass just to the left of that.
That sensor is not a front camera. its a photodiode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photodiode i guess you could call it a 1 pixel camera lol
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Believe me i can tell if it is an LED otherwise I wouldn't be doing my masters in electronics
and to answer your question, it definitely not the notification LED or the light bleeding from it into the adjacent space. when a call is in progress and it is very dark around, you can just make out the faint blinking.
alibox87 said:
i see in fron of my htc hd2 in left side two small lens is that a fron camera.
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Wait for HD3 to solve the problem just for you
Catch it :
Phone must be in call setup
*#*#7378423#*#*
WORK FOR ME on X10 2.3.2
Is this Android native or only SE?
obertoni said:
Is this Android native or only SE?
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Only SE i think all the SE phones had this menu, i know it from my k750
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting! My Arc reports an ambient light sensor. If I hold over the top of the phone I get a value of 1, then it increases to 9 if exposed to light. So the phone knows how bright it is around it but there is no "automatic" setting for the backlight!
Also, the side LED can show red, green and blue, and also yellow if the phone is on while charging. If the led is RGB it can be used as the trackball on the Nexus One, great for notifications, even if the placement of the led itself is a bit off.
thklinge said:
Interesting! My Arc reports an ambient light sensor. If I hold over the top of the phone I get a value of 1, then it increases to 9 if exposed to light. So the phone knows how bright it is around it but there is no "automatic" setting for the backlight!
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I think the autobrightness is always on... and we can't disable it.
If it does it needs some serious software tweaking...
thklinge said:
If it does it needs some serious software tweaking...
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Auto brightness isn't fast, it's really slowly changing the backlight. Outside is goes brightest and everything is clear. maybe we will get a option for it in the next software updates or custom rom
But there are also quick brightness settings in the widget, so you can make max and minimum. We should be able to control it though.
doministry said:
But there are also quick brightness settings in the widget, so you can make max and minimum. We should be able to control it though.
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Yeah. It also seems to work in a very narrow band. Say you set brightness at 50%, then it only seems to adjust a little bit down and a little bit up.
With my N1 set at auto it went from full 100% super-bright in direct sunlight (you still couldn't read the screen in sunlight, damn 1. gen AMOLED) to very dark in a pitch black room. It worked very very well.
The good news is that the Arc indeed has a light sensor, it then down to software tweaks to get it to perform like Google intended. An "unlock" for "automatic brightness" in the display settings menu would be excellent. Also, it isn't that slow. The service-menu changes values quite quick so the lag in brightness adjustment must a "feature" in the SE software.
A display of the Arc sensor uselessness: You're outside in bright sunlight with the display at 100%, works great. Then you go in to take a nap. When setting the alarm in your dark bedroom the phone will not be very dim at all and burn your eyes out.
what do you see when you press this? is this the control where you can do all service tests and see total call time etc?
It's in the service-menu, yes.
i can test! but service setting was no item...
rune11 said:
Catch it :
Phone must be in call setup
*#*#7378423#*#*
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Hi, I type in the secuence as said, but my Sony Experia Arc S doesn't enter the service menu:crying:been trying for quite some time!
nothing happens when trying on xperia arc
OZKANF1 said:
nothing happens when trying on xperia arc
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You need to be on stock ROM for it to work.